Agenda – Cereshttps://ceres.sites.uu.nl
Universiteit UtrechtSat, 03 Feb 2018 10:23:02 +0000en-GBhourly1Save the date – CERES Summer School 2018!https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2018/01/28/save-the-date-ceres-summer-school-2018/
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 22:48:26 +0000https://ceres.fss.uu.nl/?p=364Save the date! CERES Summer School 2018 will take place on June 14, 2018 at Radboud University in Nijmegen.
]]>Inaugural lecture – Marja Spierenburghttps://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/09/14/inaugural-lecture-marja-spierenburg/
Thu, 14 Sep 2017 12:42:33 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=324On Friday the 27th of October, Marja Spierenburg, who was appointed professor in Development Studies in August 2016, will deliver her inaugural lecture entitled: Hit by a double whammy: the combined impact of shrinking labour markets and land concentration in the Global South. The lecture will be delivered in English. To register, please use the following link: www.ru.nl/spierenburg
]]>Farewell lecture former CERES director Ton Dietz: ‘Africa: Still a silver lining?’https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/09/12/farewell-lecture-former-ceres-director-ton-dietz-africa-still-a-silver-lining/
Tue, 12 Sep 2017 14:16:05 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=311Professor Ton Dietz, director of the African Studies Centre Leiden, has retired on 1 September 2017. From 2002 until 2007 he was the Scientific Director of CERES and (part-time) Professor of Social Sciences at Utrecht University. Prof. Ton Dietz has been Director of the African Studies Centre Leiden since 1 May 2010 and is also Professor of the Study of African Development at Leiden University. He gave his inaugural address in Leiden entitled ‘Silverlining Africa’ on 14 January 2011. Ton Dietz was appointed Professor of Human Geography at the University of Amsterdam in 1995. He was the Scientific Director of AMIDSt, Amsterdam Research Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies in 2008 and 2009.

He will give his valedictory lecture: ‘Africa: ‘Still a silver lining?on the development of Africa’ on Monday 25 September in Leiden.

]]>Public participation in the drafting and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goalshttps://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/06/07/public-participation-in-the-drafting-and-implementation-of-the-sustainable-development-goals/
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 07:24:57 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=191UGlobe, the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges, together with the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL) and the Netherlands Society for the United Nations, invite you to join the event ‘”Public participation in the drafting and implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals”.

The focus of this event will be on the influence of direct participation in the drafting of the SDGs by representatives of the development world and the world of environmental protection. Indeed, there exist entities active in the field of development – think of corporations – and entities striving to protect the environment – think of NGOs. These entities often appear to exist in two separate worlds. Our aim is to analyse how the drafting process of the SDGs has attempted to bring these two worlds together by allowing their active participation in the drafting, and to assess to what extent this participation of representatives of both these worlds has influenced the content of the SDGs.

Programme:

Doors open at 14.30, with coffee and tea served

15.00-15.30: Introduction

15.00-15.10 Welcome by Cedric Ryngaert (UGlobe)

15.10-15.20 Otto Spijkers and Ursula Zampieri: Introducing the theme

15.20-16.05: First Panel on Public participation in drafting of the goals. Chaired by Marleen van Rijswick (UCWOSL)

15.20-15.35: Peter van der Vliet (BuZa),

15:35-15.50: Edith van Ewijk (Kaleidos)

15.50-16.05: Q&A

16.05-16.35: Second Panel on Public participation in implementation of the goals: Chaired by Simone Filippini (NVVN)

16.05-16.20: Hugo von Meijenfeldt (BuZa)

16.20-16.35: Q&A

16.35-17.00: Concluding reflections

16.35-16.55: Werner Scholtz (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

16.55-17.00: Conclusions and thank you by Ursula Zampieri and Otto Spijkers

Please register by sending an email to Otto Spijkers, o.spijkers@uu.nl.

]]>Prof. Henning Melber – Keynote speaker Ceres Summer School 2017https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/06/01/prof-henning-melber-keynote-speaker-ceres-summer-school-2017/
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:30:19 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=188We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Henning Melber will be the keynote speaker for the Ceres Summer School on June 22th, 2017. Hereby we share the abstract for his presentation:

Development Studies and the SDGs – Mapping an Agenda

On 25 September 2015 the United Nations General Assembly adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets with its resolution Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Since then, the SDGs or Agenda 2030 have emerged as the ultimate reference point not only for sustainable development, but also often as an a justification for applied development studies.

However, SDGs did not fall from heaven but were the result of a long process of negotiations. They also do not cover all aspects related to development studies and cannot claim ultimate power of definition over development, notwithstanding their strong influence in the debate. While policy makers and the aid industry within international collaboration tend to link almost everything nowadays to the SDGs, development studies should not become hostage of such a limited perspective. Rather, development studies, while engaging with the SDGs and contributing to their implementation, should maintain a certain critical distance to the dominant global norms and paradigms implemented.

This presentation explores the battles over the concept of sustainability and which definition one should embrace. It revisits the notion of development and by implication scrutinizes the meaning of development studies. It revisits earlier efforts towards true development and thereby seeks to look beyond the SDGs. It positions the efforts towards securing sustainable development as a concept in an emancipatory discourse, which should be rooted in global solidarity, justice and human dignity. Thereby an agenda not in full compliance with the SDGs is advocated to maintain ownership over development studies by scholars vis-à-vis the political and aid bureaucracy.

]]>MARE People & The Sea 2017 – Policy Day and Conferencehttps://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/06/01/mare-people-the-sea-2017-policy-day-and-conference/
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 10:07:31 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=180Following the CSDS conference on Governance by Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in June 2016, the social science Centre for Maritime Research (MARE), which is associated with CSDS, is organizing a three-day International Conference and a Policy Day in Amsterdam with special focus on SDG 14 (Life below water). The People and the Sea Conference (July 5-7, 2017) is the 9th conference organized by MARE since 2001, and will count approximately 300 participants. The guiding theme is ‘Dealing with Maritime Mobilities’. Ocean governance is an important theme.

The Policy Day (July 4, 2017) focuses on the topic of ‘Stakeholder participation in marine management: connecting practice with theory’, and is organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment of the Netherlands. Stakeholder participation is widely endorsed by European governments, but is associated with several important dilemmas in implementation. The Policy Day is explicitly linked to SDG 14 and SDG 16, and is expected to contribute to better governance practice.

For more information on the Conference and Policy Day, see www.marecentre.nl. CSDS and MARE will maintain a blog on these events, which will also be posted on this website.

]]>CERES Summer School 2017: Registration and programmehttps://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/05/24/ceres-summer-school-2017-workshop-registration/
Wed, 24 May 2017 07:43:26 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=176Registration for participants is on-going and will close on 15th June 2017. Admission to the event is free and those who want to be part of the proceedings are encouraged to register here.

]]>CERES Summer School 2017 at Utrecht Universityhttps://ceres.sites.uu.nl/2017/05/07/ceres-summer-school-2017-at-utrecht-university/
Sun, 07 May 2017 09:07:21 +0000https://ceres.sites.uu.nl/?p=147The next, biennial CERES Summer School will take place on June 22, 2017, with sustainable development as a central theme. The organizing committee consists of PhD students from various universities, with guidance being offered by Dr Harry Wels (Free University, Amsterdam). We are also very pleased to annouce that Prof. Henning Melber of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation will be giving the keynote address. More information will be available soon. We look forward to a successful event!